DevOps Engineer Jobs in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 222 136
Rank change year-on-year +16 -86 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 102 186 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.08% 1.10% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.17% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 50 149 208
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,750 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £74,375 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,210 15,873 12,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.70% 93.98% 90.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,394 11,338 8,100
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,032 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +61 52 £60,000 +14.29% 8
Thames Valley +33 21 £70,000 +16.67% 28
Berkshire +28 17 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Surrey +22 11 £52,500 -2.33% 8
West Sussex - 10 £60,000 - 5
East Sussex -3 4 £85,000 +6.25%
Kent +34 3 - - 4
Oxfordshire +27 3 £75,000 +7.14% 6
Buckinghamshire +25 1 £70,000 +21.74% 9
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (44.12%) Azure
3 44 (43.14%) Agile
4 42 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 40 (39.22%) Containerisation
6 37 (36.27%) Terraform
6 37 (36.27%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (34.31%) Artificial Intelligence
9 34 (33.33%) IBM
9 34 (33.33%) Mentoring
9 34 (33.33%) Kubernetes
10 33 (32.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (32.35%) Coaching
10 33 (32.35%) Red Hat
10 33 (32.35%) e-Learning
11 31 (30.39%) AWS
12 27 (26.47%) Python
12 27 (26.47%) CI/CD
13 24 (23.53%) Serverless
14 21 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (17.65%) Linux
15 18 (17.65%) Docker
16 16 (15.69%) Deployment Automation
16 16 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (14.71%) Key Management
17 15 (14.71%) Jenkins
17 15 (14.71%) Active Directory
17 15 (14.71%) SSL
18 14 (13.73%) Social Skills

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.92%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.92%) nginx
2 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 45 (44.12%) Azure
2 37 (36.27%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (30.39%) AWS
4 24 (23.53%) Serverless
5 16 (15.69%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.84%) GitHub
7 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.90%) SaaS
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (3.92%) AWS KMS
9 4 (3.92%) CloudFront
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CodeCommit
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 3 (2.94%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.71%) SSL
2 11 (10.78%) Broadband
2 11 (10.78%) SSH
3 7 (6.86%) DNS
4 4 (3.92%) Firewall
4 4 (3.92%) HTTPS
4 4 (3.92%) IPsec
4 4 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.94%) Network Security
6 2 (1.96%) Internet
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.98%) VPN
7 1 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) MySQL
2 4 (3.92%) Couchbase
2 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.84%) Git
3 6 (5.88%) Selenium
3 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.98%) JIRA
5 1 (0.98%) Postman
5 1 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (13.73%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Finance
4 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
4 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) RESTful
1 11 (10.78%) Web Services
2 5 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.96%) JSON
4 2 (1.96%) LAMP
4 2 (1.96%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.98%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.98%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) React
5 1 (0.98%) SOAP
5 1 (0.98%) XML
5 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.35%) e-Learning
1 33 (32.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (13.73%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 11 (10.78%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (10.78%) Cyberattack
4 11 (10.78%) Management Information System
4 11 (10.78%) PKI
5 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Life Science
7 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) DevOps
2 44 (43.14%) Agile
3 42 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 40 (39.22%) Containerisation
5 35 (34.31%) Artificial Intelligence
6 34 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 33 (32.35%) Coaching
8 27 (26.47%) CI/CD
9 21 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (15.69%) Deployment Automation
11 15 (14.71%) Key Management
12 13 (12.75%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.78%) Programme Delivery
14 11 (10.78%) Roadmaps
14 11 (10.78%) Server Management
14 11 (10.78%) Use Case
14 11 (10.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 8 (7.84%) E-Commerce
16 7 (6.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.47%) Python
2 7 (6.86%) PHP
3 5 (4.90%) Java
3 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.90%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.92%) Bash
4 4 (3.92%) SQL
5 3 (2.94%) Go
5 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.94%) Perl
6 2 (1.96%) C
6 2 (1.96%) C#
6 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.98%) Groovy
7 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.78%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 18 (17.65%) Docker
2 15 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (36.27%) Terraform
2 34 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 12 (11.76%) Ansible
4 4 (3.92%) Nessus
4 4 (3.92%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.96%) Kubespray
6 1 (0.98%) Grafana
6 1 (0.98%) Packer
6 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (33.33%) IBM
2 33 (32.35%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.78%) Thales
4 10 (9.80%) Rackspace
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.92%) Juniper
7 3 (2.94%) VMware
8 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.98%) Aruba
8 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.98%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (0.98%) Spotify